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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

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To mark the date, the One Campaign has shared a research report called “ Poverty is Sexist ,” that documents how extreme poverty hurts girls and women harder and in different ways than it does boys and men, and to demand targeted action to support girls and women. Tech2Empower: Helping Women in Cambodia.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

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So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. The very calm Preetamrai , the Southeast Asian Editor for Global Voices who is also attending and leading a workshop at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit told me about his very cool new app from Techsmith, JingProject.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Several months ago my colleague Mary Joyce (who I met at the Global Voices Summit in London in 2005 ) and who is now at the Berkman Center pinged me and asked if I knew any digital activists in Southeast Asia. taking place across various social media sites, including Facebook.

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Cambodia Bloggers: Five Years Later – Part 2

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This is the second of a three-part post about what I learned about social media, NGOs, and Social Change in Cambodia during my “ homecoming trip.” ” Part 1 was about NGOs in Cambodia , focusing on the work of the Sharing Foundation. This post is about the social media community in Cambodia.

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7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class

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That means 454 youngsters will be able to attend school in Cambodia and hopefully, fine, a route out of poverty. In a google document , some how they put the word out and 66 people signed up to blog and tweet about the birthday wish propelling its success! Maybe it is just a guiding principle. I'm going to twitter more!

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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I think that we need to look at the root causes for why people wind up in exploitative situations, no matter what they are, and to say that someone who is a victim of labor exploitation and trafficking deserves equal voice with someone who has had a different experience. I think that we hold tremendous power in our hands.